Milk delivery photo archive documenting neighborhood dairy distribution through branded route trucks, uniformed drivers, insulated cargo compartments, route numbers, and product claims printed directly on delivery vehicles, circa 1920s-1940s. Milk delivery emerged after farm-based household provisioning and before supermarket consolidation transformed food purchasing into a centralized retail experience centered on.....

[Transportation][Industrial Disasters] Atlantic City railroad disaster photo archive, likely documenting the July 30, 1896 collision west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, one of the deadliest American railroad accidents of the 1890s. The wreck occurred when a West Jersey Railroad excursion train carrying members of the Improved Order of Red Men.....

Columbia Pictures, On the Waterfront, 1954, documents a pivotal work in American film history addressing labor corruption, union violence, and individual moral resistance within the dockworker communities of New Jersey. Directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, the film draws on investigative journalism exposing organized crime influence in waterfront.....

[New Jersey] [Black Photography] Vernacular photographic archive documenting African American daily life in Newark, New Jersey during the 1960s, a period of rapid demographic change, urban disinvestment, and intensifying civil rights activism in one of the nation’s most significant Black urban centers. Newark’s Black population expanded substantially in the mid-twentieth.....

Promotional nightlife ephemera produced in New York City and New Jersey between 1995 and the early 2000s document the organization of club culture within Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ communities during a period when print media structured access to social and musical spaces. These materials identify venues, performers, and recurring events.....

[Women Education] [Handwritten] Scrapbook album from Alyson Kistler, a female, first year college student in Pennsylvania from 1936-1937 school year. Includes 107 pieces of ephemera from East Stroudsburg State Teachers College and surrounding areas, including the Poconos, New Jersey, and New York. Rich with handwritten captions and notes. 12.5 x......

37th President. Typed letter signed, one page, quarto. New Jersey, April 12, 1991, on personal letterhead, to Honorable William Hyland. In full: "Dear Bill, Talk about going into the lion's den. I thought you would like to see a list of those who attended an off-the-record appearance I made at.....

Archive of German-language correspondence from a Württemberg family to "Uncle" Fred Mertz, a German immigrant in Newark, New Jersey, c. 1923 to 1940, with newspaper clippings preserved by the recipient and two English-language Reich propaganda leaflets that reached the household during the Phoney War. The three substantive letters span three.....

[US Colored Troops] [Civil War] Roll of Honor government publications issued by the United States Quartermaster General’s Office between 1866 and 1867 record the names and burial locations of Union soldiers who died in service during the American Civil War. These volumes document the sacrifice of both white and African.....

Warren W. Heyser archive of 178 letters and envelopes, chiefly 1918–1919 and spanning 1914 through the late 1920s, addressed to Antoinette Mertz in Newark, New Jersey. Many letters are written on Army and Navy Young Men’s Christian Association “With the Colors” stationery; others are in commercial hotel envelopes from Pittsburgh.....

[Women in STEM] Women’s scientific and technical employment photo archive documenting female laboratory labor from the early twentieth century through the 1940s, historically significant for showing how women entered academic, industrial, and commercial research settings in roles that ranged from student and aide to biologist, technician, and physician at a......

[Women Suffrage] Women's Political Union of New Jersey Suffragist Perry, Adele D. Typed Letter Signed. Newark, N.J.: September 2nd, 1915. Letter Signed in Full by Adele Perry. 8 1/2 x 11 ''; single sheet; typed on the elaborate cream stationary of the Women's Political Union of New Jersey , Written.....

[Labor Organizing][New Deal] Workers Alliance photo archive documenting unemployment organizing, WPA protest activity, and federal relief conflicts during the late New Deal period, 1936-1939, establishing how unemployed workers participated in relief legislation, congressional appropriations, and Roosevelt administration labor policy during the depths of Depression-era economic instability. Formed in 1935 through.....